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The New York Times has gotten around to writing about Igor Kenk; an article by Ian Austen will appear on page A7 in Friday's paper, and at 1100+ words, it's apparently the longest article written about Toronto in the Times since that boring travel one in May. We're gonna be world-famous! [via Digg.]

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we'll feature one of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome.

Toronto is the second most expensive city in North America and fifty-fourth most expensive city in the world, according to the Mercer's annual cost of living survey. In the worldwide list, Toronto jumped twenty-eight spots and now ranks as more expensive than Los Angeles, a city known for its frugality.

If your bike's been stolen in Toronto, there's a chance that it's one of the 150 recovered from a police raid at The Bicycle Clinic (927 Queen Street West) on Thursday night—and that you can get it back this weekend. The day before the raid, police arrested Clinic owner Igor Kenk after (allegedly) watching him tell another man to use a bolt cutter to steal two bikes. (Rumours had been circulating around the Clinic for some time before that.) The recovered bikes from the raid will be on display at Toronto Police's Central Garage (9 Hanna Street, near King and Dufferin) this Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and you'll have to bring some proof of ownership with you. Here's the Toronto Police press release, in PDF form.

Toronto is still under an extreme heat alert, with high temperatures approximating those on the surface of Mercury at 427° C. OK, 31° C but the humidity will make it seem hotter.